Drake Is The Most Pirated Artist In America

Love Drake, or hate him, you’re listening to him. But chances are, you probably didn’t buy his album. According to data monitoring company, Musicmetric, with a whopping 96,868,398 files shared, we the people of the United States placed first in the global rankings for “Most Illegal Downloads,” handily beating runner-up United Kingdom by over two times.

And of those 96s-some-odd million downloads, Canada’s very own, Drake was the most popularly bootlegged artist, which is a little strange because he wasn’t even first in his own country. Surprisingly, the honor of being Canada’s pirate king belonged to a certain Kanye West.

I buy albums all the time. Ahem. But if one were inclined to not pay for music, which is one’s right, one should also not feel guilty if he/she
a) goes to concerts
b) buys a really good album
c) supports new and coming artists somehow along the line

I HATE when people say the “either way, youre listening (insert artist name)” no shots at Raj, but it simply is not true. I download, buy, or listen to Drake, & other rappers. Not everybody is listening.

I’m a big proponent of supporting artists. It’s important to the industry. Now that the PSA is outta the way, I downloaded the MESS out of “Take Care”. Why? Because I was absolutely left disillusioned by “Thank Me Later” (or Now, or Whenever the hell…) I only gave “Take Care” a listen based off the strength of the review of this blog.

Y’all so dramatic. LOL. It has never been that serious.
I buy lots of albums… But I usually download first to see if it’s gonna be worth the purchase.

I feel like the metrics are gonna be all wonky anyway. U.S. has tighter regulation of just what constitutes IP in the first place, so of course it’ll look like we “pirate” more. Remember when they got OnSmash?

Besides, “The Motto” was huge in the hood, but it was only on the deluxe version of the album. Y’all know good and damn well, us hood folk ain’t buyin’ n’an deluxe NOTHIN.

I am in the stone ages, i still buy CD’s for my car, and throw beat in my car…that being said Drake gets 0 play in the ride……..unless my ol lady in the car…….but, yall heard that new Joe Blow? SLAPPER!

Honestly I don’t know anyone that pays for music including me. I download the shit out of everything. Its not that I don’t respect the artist or want to support them cuz I do. I’d rather download the music, then go see them in concert. I go to about at least 15 concerts a year. So basically I see downloading as promoting for a concert and they should too. Anything they sell off the shelves is extra….I think the all the artist are starting to see it as the same.

Where would a lot of these artist be if we didn’t download their music?

I think that giving out their music for free is one way to promote themselves and boost their career. I just don’t know if in this case, this was the strategy. But, what’s new? there are a lot of people downloading music for free. By the way, if you want free music or want to enjoy a free game app get it here: [bit.ly]